MEDIATION MATTERS Offers a
40-Hour
BASIC MEDIATION TRAINING WORKSHOP
KENSINGTON, MARYLAND
April 7 - 11, 2016
Mediation Matters will hold a 40-hour Basic Mediation Training workshop for professionals. April 7-11, 2016 at our in Kensington, Maryland. This workshop is designed to provide both hands-on training and a clear framework to enable participants to work effectively with parties involved in disputes who need help. Our past participants tell us that this is some of the best professional training they have ever received. We hope your experience will be the same.
What does this workshop include?
This highly interactive workshop uses a wide range of formats including video, demonstrations, lectures, discussions, simulations, story and music. The workshop, with a 400-page manual, covers the basic content areas of mediation. The training presents a six-stage model of the mediation process and focuses on the skills involved in becoming an effective mediator.
Some of the many components in this training include:
three core paradigms for dealing with conflict
advocacy and empowerment
styles of mediation & identifying yours
asking skillful questions
integrative and distributive bargaining
understanding & working with clients’ conflict stories
using caucus effectively
how co-mediation adds value
starting your mediation practice & marketing
mediator ethics and standards of practice
starting your mediation practice & marketing
writing competent memoranda of understanding
A distinctive feature of this training is extensive use of videotapes, including tapes of actual mediations. The workshop includes mediation role-plays so that each participant can practice and develop his/her skills.
We will consider conflicts in a broad range of settings including health care, disputing neighbors, family conflict, divorcing parents, civil, contract and employment disputes, enabling participants to intervene effectively in conflict in a variety of settings.
For Maryland residents, this workshop meets the 40-hour requirement for basic mediation training under Rule 17 of the Court of Appeals in Maryland for those wishing to be approved as mediators.
The workshop is also approved for Category 1 SW CEUs for Maryland social workers and
Category A CEUs for LCPCs.
“This was a wonderful experience. The 40-hour basic mediation training course is great and extremely helpful. Carl is a gifted teacher.”
Campbell Killefer, attorney, Bethesda, Maryland
Can I apply for membership in the Association for Conflict Resolution after this workshop?
Yes. This program fulfills the 40-hour training requirements for Practitioner Member status in ACR.
Who are the faculty for the course?
We pride ourselves in our high quality workshop that will be led by:
Carl D. Schneider, Ph.D...Over the past thirty-one years Carlhas trained several thousand mediators. Currently Director of Mediation Matters, Kensington, Maryland, Carl is a licensed clinical psychologist (Il.), licensed clinical Marriage and Family Therapist (Md.), a Certified Mediator with the Maryland Council on Dispute Resolution and with the Supreme Court of Virginia, an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) and an Advanced Mediator Member of the Academy of Professional Family Mediators (APFM).Carl has been on the Board of Directors of the national Academy of Family Mediators and has served on the editorial board of Mediation Quarterly. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
"Strengths too numerous to enumerate here - Generally, Carl Schneider does everything in the training well - outstanding teacher, speaker, preacher, entertainer - Teaches by example - what an example.”
Louisa Abbot, Superior Court Judge, Chatham County, Georgia
Audrey M. Yowell, Ph.D., M.S.S.S.
Audreybringsto mediation her passionfor working with children and their families.She has worked in Head Start and in residential and in-patient psychiatric settings for adolescents.Audrey has provided training for government and private organizations, andhas served as Field Instructor for several graduate schools of social work. A member of the Maryland Council for Dispute Resolution (MCDR) and the Academy of Professional Family Mediators (APFM), Audrey received her M.S.S.S. from the Boston University School of Social Work, and her Ph.D. from the Heller School, Brandeis University.
“Really fantastic, as Carl and his coaches, including Audrey and Eileen, were superb and made the program successful.”
Steven Chen, attorney, banker, Pikesville
Dates/Time/Location
April 7-11, 2016. This is an intensive, experiential forty-hour workshop. We will meet from 8:45 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Thursday-Monday. Please plan to be present for the full workshop.
Cost:
$1345early registration.
How do I register?
On-line at or call 301/581-0330.
We hope to see you in April.
“I learned more in these few days (and had more fun too) than my entire Master’s program (Yale).... I shall never forget the experience.”
Shelby K. Buckman, M.S., Guardian ad Litem, New Haven, Connecticut
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